No charges in fatal crash involving child driver
• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- Aberdeen police say no citations or charges will result from the death of a woman who was pinned between two vehicles after she put her 8-year-old daughter behind the wheel.
• Police say 30-year-old Brianne Nutter was supervising her daughter as the girl tried to back out of a driveway Tuesday afternoon. Her boyfriend, Chris Schulz, says Nutter wanted the vehicle moved about a foot so she could get a riding lawnmower out of the garage.
• The girl lost control and hit a vehicle parked in the street. Nutter had the driver's door open and was pinned between the door and the parked vehicle. She died at a hospital.
• Police Capt. Jay Tobin says it was a "tragic accident," and he hasn't seen anything like it in his 26-year career.
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Man pleads not guilty in 3 Nebraska crash deaths
• PIERCE, Neb. (AP) -- A 21-year-old South Dakota man has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor vehicular homicide in the crash deaths of three other people in northeast Nebraska.
• Online court records say the attorney for Carlos Sanchez Espinoza entered the pleas on Wednesday in Pierce County Court.
• The April 28 crash on U.S. Highway 81 in Pierce County killed 41-year-old Pablo Chilel Escobar, 29-year-old Mario Adan DeJesus Pinedo and 24-year-old Hugo Iglecias Moreno. Those men and six others in the vehicle were ejected from the SUV when it left the highway and rolled.
• Authorities say it appears a tire blew out, causing the driver to lose control. The men were on their way to a construction site when the crash occurred.
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SD winter wheat production expected to rebound
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Winter wheat production in South Dakota this year is expected to be almost double what farmers harvested during drought-plagued 2013.
• The Agriculture Department's latest estimate is 49.1 million bushels, up 88 per (Continued on page 13)
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